Morgan Campbell

With the World Athletics Indoor Championships set to start, Noah Lyles appears prepared to deliver. In February he ran 6.44 over 60 metres, establishing a personal best and world lead, and a similar performance this weekend could shine a spotlight on an event that can use the attention.

Since frequenting Kansas City games in support of Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift has been portrayed by conservative U.S. commentators as a distraction, a saboteuse, and an undercover government agent dispatched to brainwash football fans.

When Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay used an interview to accuse police of profiling him over his race (white) and wealth (immense) during a 2014 impaired driving arrest, the online backlash came fast, with a long-list of commentators highlighting Irsay’s stunning lack of self-awareness.

The boxing match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou fits well in a contemporary sports scene that treasures appeal-broadening crossover events, and where financial support comes increasingly from deep-pocketed Middle Eastern kingdoms, writes CBC Sports senior contributor Morgan Campbell.

Teams and leagues can pour money and effort into focus groups and ad campaigns and novelty events, but the biggest, most satisfying marketing wins are often organic, writes CBC Sports senior contributor Morgan Campbell.

As CBC Sports Senior Contributor Morgan Campbell writes, if Edward Rogers disliked simple overconfidence, he wouldn’t hang around the C-suite, where high self-regard is a job requirement.

As CBC Sports Senior Contributor Morgan Campbell writes, prodigious sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have done nothing but exist, excel, and defy expectations. Neither woman is inherently controversial. They’re just fast.

As CBC Sports Senior Contributor Morgan Campbell writes, thanks to the Supreme Court we can now, hopefully, move on from debating whether collegiate athletes deserve more in return for their talent.

The NCAA continues to portray itself as an organization dedicated to providing opportunity and experience for young adults, and then through its blatant gender inequities exposes itself as the big business it actually is.

In February in New Zealand, a heavyweight boxing match drew a sold-out, filled-to-normal capacity crowd. It’s a look at what might have been if North America had taken the pandemic more seriously instead of politicizing everything, writes CBC Sports senior contributor Morgan Campbell.